Newspoll this morning is reporting that the Labor/Coalition split is back to 52% to 48%. This is just a statistically significant result. Their measure of the relative popularity of the leaders is certainly statistically significant with a sharp decline in Gillard's approvals and an increase in her disapprovals.

Nielsen reports that Labor leads by 8 points and attributes this to a surge in female support for Julia Gillard. The wrinkle in their result is that Labor support is low in Queensland and West Australia, making the result potentially closer than the raw figures suggest.

Morgan confirms Newspoll. There appears to be a huge gap between Labor and the Coalition which has opened-up over the last month. While electors were initially slow to warm to Julia Gillard they have now conquered their shyness.